#12 - Sil Ganzó, ourBridge for Kids
Square Pizza
English - April 17, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 42.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsEducation Business Entrepreneurship education public education innovation equity diversity data social-impact implementation consulting impact Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Welcome back to another episode of the #squarepizzapod - a podcast about making the good things about school - even better.
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Today's episode is from our interview with Sil Ganzo. Sil is the Executive Director of ourBridge, an afterschool and summer program that offers refugee and immigrant children great experiences and opportunities to find out what they love to do and what they are really good at doing.
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In this episode, we covered:
- Sil's favorite Argentinian drink
- ourBridge's response to COVID in order to support their students and families
- The challenges of hiring and fundraising as a non-profit leader
- The need for Charlotte to be more welcoming of immigrants and refugees and the importance of government leaders
Also - this episode was recorded on Zoom and you can check out the video at our Youtube page - @SchermCo
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You can check out every episode of the #squarepizzapod at http://scherm.co/squarepizza/ or wherever you listen to podcasts.
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